Rnb: Rhythm And Blues

RnB, abbreviated for rhythm and blues, is one of the most popular genre of African American music since the late 1940s during the end of World War II and the early 1960s. The earliest forms of the rhythm and blues and soul genres is from a combination of gospel, jazz, and the blues. This combination of music grew into becoming one of the most dominant forms of entertainment in the latter half of the 20th century, creating the groundwork for everything from rock music to funk to hip hop. From the late 1920s to today, R&B and soul became the chroniclers of the black experience in the United States, while appealing to the audience of people of different races and culture, especially to the Caucasians. During those years of the late 1920s and 1930s, the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the Midwest, West, and the Northeast occurred. From there, the African American Community learn to adapt to the city life which soon helped create a younger, more urban black audience, causing the formation of RnB to be born. Singers who became early R&B artists even changed the typical band style by performing in small combos and

Singers such as Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, R. Kelly, Stevie Wonder, and Keyshia Cole take place at this time. Hip hop, created from the 1980s and 1990s, plays a large role in this era. Contemporary RnB, also known as urban contemporary and urban pop, goes by a slick, electronic record production style with drum machine-backed rhythms, and a smooth style of vocal arrangement. The uses of hip hop inspired beats are typical, although the roughness and grit inherent in hip hop are usually reduced and smoothed out. This new wave of RnB also contributes to television shows such as “R&B Divas: Atlanta”, “R&B Divas”, and the new famous series of 2015,